April 6th, 20180NEW YORK — The New York attorney general’s office is investigating the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed Black man who pointed a metal pipe at officers in Brooklyn in the latest such killing to prompt street protests.
The death of Saheed Vassell on Wednesday was one of a string of fatal shootings of unarmed Black men by...
November 23rd, 20170As Arab American and Muslim families gather around the dinner table this Thanksgiving holiday, they will show gratitude for their blessings, but will also be bound to express fear for each other’s safety.
Since President Trump’s candidacy and after his election, the country has been deeply inflamed with hate crimes, racism and...
October 18th, 20170A white man was indicted on a hate crime charge on Tuesday in the stabbing death of a newly commissioned black U.S. Army officer on the University of Maryland campus in May, a county prosecutor said.
Sean Urbanski, 22, of Severna Park, Maryland, had already been indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge for the death of...
April 7th, 20171
DETROIT — On Thursday, April 6, the mother of Terrance Kellom, an unarmed Black man fatally shot in his father’s home in April 2015, filed a $50 million lawsuit against three officers linked to her son’s death.
Nelda Kellom stated in her complaint that Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Mitchell Quinn had no reason or...
April 4th, 20171DEARBORN — The statue of late Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard has resurfaced since the controversy that led to its removal from outside the old City Hall building in September 2015.
The statue was originally placed in front of Dearborn City Hall in 1989, but was removed and placed in storage after the building was sold in 2015....
